Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 238 312
Rank change year-on-year -116 +74 -79
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 457 634 942
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.42% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.53% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 216 287 538
10th Percentile £38,750 £48,750 £37,639
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £51,488
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +7.41% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £104,375 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £64,627 £57,502
% change year-on-year -2.40% +12.39% -11.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68,264 41,362 89,059
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.88% 92.48% 81.88%
Number of salaries quoted 46,974 22,138 63,125
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £91,991
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 18 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 18 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -127 415 £67,500 -6.90% 185
London -30 256 £80,000 - 120
Work from Home +55 253 £63,076 -5.15% 78
UK excluding London -194 149 £63,076 -2.40% 101
North of England -16 53 £71,255 -10.93% 21
North West +28 36 £85,000 +6.25% 12
East of England -10 26 £65,000 -7.14% 12
South East -134 26 £47,500 -32.14% 37
Midlands -38 20 £60,000 -12.09% 11
South West -88 20 £69,056 +15.09% 13
West Midlands -21 18 £58,750 -15.47% 5
Yorkshire -35 14 £61,963 +90.65% 12
Scotland +5 4 £70,000 -13.85% 6
Wales -45 3 £69,501 +16.11% 1
North East -45 3 £63,076 -23.54% 3
East Midlands -33 2 £152,500 +154.17% 6

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 13 (2.84%) Confluence
3 9 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.97%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.88%) CMS
5 1 (0.22%) Drupal
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 53 (11.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 26 (5.69%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.22%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 39 (8.53%) Workfront
2 5 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.09%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.88%) Shopify
4 2 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.22%) Magento
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.22%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 81 (17.72%) AWS
2 58 (12.69%) SaaS
3 53 (11.60%) Azure
3 53 (11.60%) iPaaS
4 18 (3.94%) Pulumi
5 15 (3.28%) GCP
6 14 (3.06%) GitHub
6 14 (3.06%) Power Platform
7 13 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (2.19%) GitHub Copilot
9 9 (1.97%) OneDrive
10 8 (1.75%) Figma
11 7 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.31%) Asana
13 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (0.88%) Azure AI
14 4 (0.88%) H2O.ai
14 4 (0.88%) Miro
14 4 (0.88%) OpenShift
14 4 (0.88%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 80 (17.51%) Broadband
2 29 (6.35%) HTTP
3 10 (2.19%) WAN
4 8 (1.75%) SD-WAN
5 6 (1.31%) LAN
6 5 (1.09%) Firewall
6 5 (1.09%) Multicast
6 5 (1.09%) Network Security
6 5 (1.09%) NGN
7 4 (0.88%) MPLS
7 4 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.66%) WLAN
9 2 (0.44%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.44%) SAN
9 2 (0.44%) Wireless
10 1 (0.22%) RS-232
10 1 (0.22%) RS-485
10 1 (0.22%) Skype
10 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (12.47%) Metadata
2 19 (4.16%) Relational Database
3 18 (3.94%) NoSQL
3 18 (3.94%) RDBMS
4 12 (2.63%) Power BI
5 7 (1.53%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.09%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.66%) Big Data
7 3 (0.66%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.66%) Tableau
8 2 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.44%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 25 (5.47%) JIRA
2 18 (3.94%) Jaeger
3 6 (1.31%) Git
4 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.22%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.22%) Selenium
General
1 158 (34.57%) Marketing
2 139 (30.42%) Finance
2 139 (30.42%) Social Skills
3 68 (14.88%) Banking
4 60 (13.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 57 (12.47%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (12.47%) Retail
6 50 (10.94%) Influencing Skills
7 48 (10.50%) Presentation Skills
8 44 (9.63%) Law
9 29 (6.35%) Public Sector
10 27 (5.91%) Legal
11 22 (4.81%) Back Office
12 14 (3.06%) Italian Language
12 14 (3.06%) Retail Banking
13 13 (2.84%) Manufacturing
13 13 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (2.41%) German Language
15 9 (1.97%) Spanish Language
15 9 (1.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 133 (29.10%) Product Manager
2 81 (17.72%) Lead
3 74 (16.19%) Product Owner
4 67 (14.66%) Senior
5 40 (8.75%) Senior Manager
6 37 (8.10%) Senior Product Manager
7 33 (7.22%) Software Engineer
8 30 (6.56%) Development Engineer
9 29 (6.35%) Software Development Engineer
10 21 (4.60%) Developer
11 19 (4.16%) Lead Software Engineer
12 18 (3.94%) Consultant
13 17 (3.72%) Product Lead
14 15 (3.28%) Cloud Engineer
15 14 (3.06%) Business Consultant
15 14 (3.06%) Business Development Consultant
15 14 (3.06%) Development Consultant
16 13 (2.84%) Platform Manager
17 12 (2.63%) AWS Developer
17 12 (2.63%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (6.78%) REST
2 18 (3.94%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (3.94%) OpenTelemetry
3 7 (1.53%) PyTorch
3 7 (1.53%) TensorFlow
4 6 (1.31%) CSS
4 6 (1.31%) HTML
5 5 (1.09%) FIX Protocol
6 4 (0.88%) Keras
6 4 (0.88%) LangChain
6 4 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (0.66%) .NET
7 3 (0.66%) LangGraph
8 2 (0.44%) Pandas
8 2 (0.44%) Plotly
8 2 (0.44%) Seaborn
8 2 (0.44%) Spring
8 2 (0.44%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.22%) FHIR
9 1 (0.22%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 162 (35.45%) Product Ownership
2 65 (14.22%) Social Media
3 54 (11.82%) Marketing Technology
3 54 (11.82%) Over-the-Top Content
4 36 (7.88%) Cloud Native
5 30 (6.56%) Public Cloud
6 20 (4.38%) Onboarding
7 17 (3.72%) Management Information System
8 15 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (2.41%) Enterprise Cloud
9 11 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (2.41%) Web Conferencing
10 8 (1.75%) Driving Licence
11 7 (1.53%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.53%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.53%) Podcast
12 6 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (1.31%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (1.09%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.13%) Linux
2 19 (4.16%) Unix
3 8 (1.75%) Windows
4 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.22%) Android
5 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (66.30%) Roadmaps
2 218 (47.70%) Agile
3 136 (29.76%) Product Roadmap
4 125 (27.35%) Product Vision
5 107 (23.41%) Decision-Making
6 91 (19.91%) AI
6 91 (19.91%) Mentoring
6 91 (19.91%) User Stories
7 87 (19.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 85 (18.60%) Stakeholder Management
9 82 (17.94%) Customer Experience
10 81 (17.72%) Product Backlog
10 81 (17.72%) Product Requirements
11 73 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
12 72 (15.75%) Sprint Planning
13 66 (14.44%) Workflow
14 62 (13.57%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 62 (13.57%) Software Engineering
15 61 (13.35%) Matrix Organization
15 61 (13.35%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 53 (11.60%) Java
2 36 (7.88%) Python
3 26 (5.69%) JavaScript
4 20 (4.38%) Bash
5 18 (3.94%) Go
6 10 (2.19%) SQL
7 6 (1.31%) Bicep
8 3 (0.66%) C#
8 3 (0.66%) C++
8 3 (0.66%) MATLAB
8 3 (0.66%) PHP
8 3 (0.66%) R
9 1 (0.22%) C
9 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 70 (15.32%) Degree
2 19 (4.16%) AWS Certification
3 14 (3.06%) Security Cleared
4 12 (2.63%) SC Cleared
5 11 (2.41%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.97%) HND
7 8 (1.75%) HNC
8 7 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.53%) DBS Check
9 6 (1.31%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.88%) CSPO
11 3 (0.66%) CCNA
11 3 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.66%) CISSP
11 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.44%) ACCA
12 2 (0.44%) CBAP
12 2 (0.44%) CIMA
12 2 (0.44%) Dell Certification
12 2 (0.44%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.25%) QA
2 20 (4.38%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.19%) GDPR
4 9 (1.97%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.88%) PERC
6 3 (0.66%) SLA
7 2 (0.44%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.44%) PMO
8 1 (0.22%) DICOM
8 1 (0.22%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.22%) GRC
8 1 (0.22%) HL7
8 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (5.03%) Docker
2 3 (0.66%) Firmware
3 2 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.44%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (6.78%) Terraform
2 21 (4.60%) Kubernetes
3 18 (3.94%) Ansible
3 18 (3.94%) Argo
3 18 (3.94%) Kustomize
3 18 (3.94%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.44%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.44%) WSUS
5 1 (0.22%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 60 (13.13%) Adobe
2 46 (10.07%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.13%) Google
4 14 (3.06%) Oracle
5 9 (1.97%) Cisco
5 9 (1.97%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.31%) Dell
7 5 (1.09%) Bloomberg
7 5 (1.09%) CQG
7 5 (1.09%) Databricks
7 5 (1.09%) Fortinet
7 5 (1.09%) ION Trading
7 5 (1.09%) Juniper
7 5 (1.09%) Patsystems
7 5 (1.09%) Reuters
7 5 (1.09%) Trayport
8 4 (0.88%) NVIDIA
8 4 (0.88%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 4 (0.88%) Toshiba